# bufar
## Asturian
### Alternative forms

* gufar

### Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /buˈfaɾ/ [buˈfaɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Hyphenation: bu‧far

### Verb

bufar
* to blow, to gust (the wind)
** 1904, Pachín de Melás, La güelina‎:El aire gufaba... / gufaba con juerza; / rincaba gorbizos, / voltiaba la fueya...The air blew... / it blew strongly / it plucked heathers, / it turned over the leaf...
* to snort (to exhale angrily through the nose)
    Synonym: runfiar
** 1987, Sabel de Fausta, Mercáu de vida, mercáu de muerte; Esperteyu‎:que yá nun cargaba cola collecha del maíz, les panoyes y los ñarbasos, camudáu por aquel otru carru de metal que gufaba pel motor qu'emburriaba d'él, y que'n vez de piensu xintaba un agua fediondo que los homes ñomaben "gasói",that no longer carried the corn harvest, the combs and the corn stalks, replaced by that other metal cart that snorted from the engine that was pulling it, and that instead of feed it ate a kind of smelly water that men called "gasoil"
* to overflow (a liquid when boling)
    Bufó tol llecheAll of the milk overflowed

#### Conjugation
## Catalan
### Etymology

Onomatopoeic. Compare Valencian usage to Sardinian bufare.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [buˈfa]
* IPA: (Valencia) [buˈfaɾ]
* Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
* Hyphenation: bu‧far

### Verb

bufar (first-person singular present bufo, first-person singular preterite bufí, past participle bufat)
* (transitive, intransitive) to blow (on, away)
* (transitive) to blow up, inflate
* (reflexive) to blow up, puff up, expand
* (reflexive, Valencia) to get drunk
    Synonym: embriagar-se

#### Derived terms

* bufar i fer ampolles

#### Derived terms

* bufa
* bufador
* bufaforats
* bufament
* bufat
* bufec
* bufera
* esbufegar
* rebufar

### Further reading

* “bufar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Galician
### Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /buˈfaɾ/ [buˈfaɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Hyphenation: bu‧far

### Verb

bufar (first-person singular present bufo, first-person singular preterite bufei, past participle bufado)
* to blow (especially, to exhale roughly through the mouth)
    Synonym: soprar
* to fart silently
* (of cats) to hiss

#### Conjugation

$^1$Less recommended.

### References

* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “bufar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* “bufar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “bufar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* “bufar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “bufar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Occitan
### Etymology

Of onomatopoeic origin; compare Old French bouffer and Italian buffo.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Languedoc):(file)

### Verb

bufar
* to blow
* (of the wind) to gust; to blow

#### Conjugation
## Portuguese
### Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /buˈfa(ʁ)/ [buˈfa(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /buˈfa(ʁ)/ [buˈfa(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /buˈfa(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /buˈfa(ʁ)/ [buˈfa(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /buˈfa(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /buˈfaɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /buˈfaɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /buˈfa.ɾi/
* Hyphenation: bu‧far

### Verb

bufar (first-person singular present bufo, first-person singular preterite bufei, past participle bufado)
* to blow
    Synonyms: soprar, bufir
* (by extension) to boast

#### Conjugation

$^1$Brazilian Portuguese. $^2$European Portuguese.

#### Derived terms

* bufa

## Romansch
### Alternative forms

* buffar (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan)
* buffer (Puter)
* boffar (Vallader)

### Etymology

Of onomatopoeic origin; compare Old French bouffer.

### Verb

bufar
* (Sutsilvan) to blow

#### Synonyms

* (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) sufflar
* (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) zuflar
* (Puter) zufler
* (Vallader) sofflar

## Spanish
### Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /buˈfaɾ/ [buˈfaɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: bu‧far

### Verb

bufar (first-person singular present bufo, first-person singular preterite bufé, past participle bufado)
* (intransitive) to snort (to exhale angrily through the nose)

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

### Further reading

* “bufar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10